Very Opposite Sexes ( Sexes très opposés )

Very Opposite Sexes (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Sexes très opposés
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Belgium ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
82 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2002 and produced in:
Belgium ( France, Benelux )
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Eric Assous

Written By:
Eric Assous

Actors:
Charlotte de Turckheim ..... Brigitte
Patrick Chesnais ..... Fernand
Elisa Tovati ..... Annick
Antoine Duléry ..... Cyril
Jean-Noël Brouté ..... Rémi
Véronique Boulanger ..... Gabrielle
Stéphanie Lagarde ..... Vanessa
Arnaud Simon ..... Claude
Roxane Mesquida ..... Hélène
Philippe Harel ..... Michel, l'interviewer
Didier Flamand ..... Gérard
Yves Rénier ..... L'homme au restaurant
Thierry Ashanti ..... Patrick
Eric Viellard ..... Thibault
Alain Sachs

Synopsis:

Ideally, a love story should last for life… But this is often not the case. Does this indicate that men and women are meant to fall in love several times over? Why do people tire of each other? What events lead to a break-up? If they could be identified, could we then eradicate them? Four stories delve, by way of personal accounts and illustration, into relationships that went astray before they should have. Men and women of different ages and social conditions recount their stories. Four couples, four break-ups, four attempts at an explanation - combined with the ambitious aim to amuse!

Lies, betrayal, lust, and ennui are just a few of the themes at work in this knowing and urbane dissection of modern love and relationships, which follows the romantic pursuits of four disparate couples. Gabrielle is a shy but attractive librarian who falls for Remy, a seductive rake. Vanessa is a beautician who decides to shack up with Gerard, a significantly older professor of literature who compounds his loftiness by smoking a pipe. Then there's Brigitte, a rather bodacious woman who charms the pants off the younger Claude at a gallery opening. Finally, there is Cyril, an average Joe who falls in love with the stunningly beautiful Anick, and can't quite believe his luck. Director Eric Assous uses the ins and outs of all four couples to examine the never-ending battle of the sexes with humor, drama, and a keen eye for the nuances of gender politics. Very Opposite Sexes had its North American premiere at the 2002 Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema.

Rabidly jealous Cyril (Antoine Dulery), 39, went so far as to buy an apartment he disliked in order to date Annick (Elisa Tovati), a 28-year-old realtor. Her quirks include listening to music with headphones while making love, on the grounds that 'For me, music and sex go together - in the movies, whenever there's a major sex scene, there's always music.' The pair appears to have fertility problems. Fiftysomething high school lit teacher Fernand (Patrick Chesnais, a model of deadpan comic timing) takes up with Vanessa (Stephanie Lagarde), a bouncy 26-year-old beautician who's bowled over that he 'reads actual books and everything.' But his life is disrupted when the most fetching of his underage charges, Helene (Roxanne Mesquida, from 'Fat Girl' and 'Sex Is Comedy'), announces she's in love with him and bares her youthful breasts in the classroom. Thirty-five-year-old Remi (Jean-Noel Broute) meets his upstairs neighbor Gabrielle (Veronique Boulanger, a Gallic cousin to Julie Haggerty) when her tub leaks into his bathroom. He lies about enjoying her execrable violin playing and tries to extricate himself from the relationship almost as soon as it begins. She's cloying, needy and thinking about babies. His timorous ruses for discouraging her enthusiasms are spot on. Finally, forthright young grandmother Brigitte (Charlotte de Turckheim) picks up aimless 27-year-old Claude (Arnaud Simon) at a gallery opening and blithely has her way with him until another gent catches her roving eye. Brigitte's expedient technique for ditching a lover is hilariously brusque.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 09 June, 2008.

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